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by Mark Clodfelter
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 1989
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 1989
The Limits of Air Power analyzes the American bombing campaigns in Vietnam and shows why the use of air power, so effective in previous wars, proved unsuccessful in a limited war.
Major Mark Clodfelter, a military historian, assesses the American use of air power from World War II through the...
Sea Wolf of the Confederacy
The Daring Civil War Raids of Naval Lt. Charles W. Read
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2004
In June 1863, just days before the epic clash at Gettysburg ended the last rebel land invasion of the North, a small party of the Confederate Navy mounted a devastating series of raids on the New England coast, culminating in a battle off Portland, Maine. Veteran author David W. Shaw brilliantly re-creates...
A Hanging Offense
The Strange Affair of the Warship Somers
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Mutiny on the Bounty is one of history's greatest naval stories -- yet few know the similar tale from America's own fledgling navy in the dying days of the Age of Sail, a tale of mutiny and death at sea on an American warship.
In 1842, the brig-of-war Somers set out on a training cruise for...
A Rage for Glory
The Life of Commodore Stephen Decatur, USN
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Stephen Decatur was one of the most awe-inspiring officers of the entire Age of Fighting Sail. A real-life American naval hero in the early nineteenth century, he led an astonishing life, and his remarkable acts of courage in combat made him one of the most celebrated figures of his era.
Decatur's...
Bloggers on the Bus
How the Internet Changed Politics and the Press
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2009
Ever since radio entered the American private home, technology has shaped political campaign strategy. Radio brought candidates more intimately and vividly into citizens' lives than newspapers could. The televised presidential debate of 1960 -- in which a strapping John F. Kennedy embarrassed a clammy...
The White Tiger
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2008
A stunning literary debut critics have likened to Richard Wright’s Native Son, The White Tiger follows a darkly comic Bangalore driver through the poverty and corruption of modern India’s caste society. “This is the authentic voice of the Third World, like you've never heard it before” (John...
When Atheism Becomes Religion
America's New Fundamentalists
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2009
From the New York Times bestselling author of American Fascists and the NBCC finalist for War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning comes this timely and compelling work about new atheists: those who attack religion to advance the worst of global capitalism, intolerance and imperial projects.
Chris...
Death of a Dissident
The Poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko and the Return of the KGB
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
The assassination of former Russian intelligence officer Alexander "Sasha" Litvinenko in November 2006 -- poisoned by the rare radioactive element polonium -- caused an international sensation. Within a few short weeks, the fit forty-three-year-old lay gaunt, bald, and dying in a hospital, the victim...
Sophia Tolstoy
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
As Leo Tolstoy’s wife, Sophia Tolstoy experienced both glory and condemnation during their forty-eight-year marriage. She was admired as the muse and literary assistant to one of the world’s most celebrated novelists. But when in later years Tolstoy became a towering public figure and founded...
Bloodlust
On the Roots of Violence from Cain and Abel to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
THROUGHOUT HISTORY AND ACROSS CULTURES, the most common form of violence is that between family members and neighbors or kindred communities—in civil wars writ large and small. From assault to genocide, from assassination to massacre, violence usually emerges from inside the fold. You have more...
Breakfast with Socrates
An Extraordinary (Philosophical) Journey Through Your Ordinary Day
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2010
Ever want to have a bagel with Hegel? Eggs with Bacon? Or spend a day with Socrates, Mill, Herodotus, or Kant, able to pick their brains about the most mundane moments of your life? Former Oxford Philosophy Fellow Robert Rowland Smith thought he would, and so with dry wit and marvelous invention,...
The Normal One
Life with a Difficult or Damaged Sibling
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2002
In the first book of its kind, renowned psychotherapist Jeanne Safer examines the hidden trauma of growing up with an emotionally troubled or physically disabled sibling, and helps adult "normal" siblings resolve their childhood pain.
For too long the therapeutic community has focused on the...
Endless Frontier
Vannevar Bush, Engineer of the American Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
A prodigiously researched biography of Vannevar Bush, one of America’s most awe-inspiring polymaths and the secret force behind the biggest technological breakthroughs of the twentieth century.
As the inventor and public entrepreneur who launched the Manhattan Project, helped to create the...
Justice on the Grass
Three Rwandan Journalists, Their Trial for War Crimes and a Nation's Quest for Redemption
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2005
The 1994 Rwandan genocide, in which more than 800,000 Tutsi and moderate Hutu were massacred in just 100 days, was an unparalleled modern-day slaughter. How does a nation pick up the pieces after the killing has stopped?
In a gripping narrative that examines the power of the press and sheds light...